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CS CONSULTING – Enterprise & Commercial Specialist for the Cultural Sector

Clare Short is an independent Enterprise and Commercial Consultant with over 15 years' experience driving income generation, strategic growth, and operational excellence across the cultural sector. Formerly Head of Enterprise at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, she led the transformation of the Botanics Trading Company, delivering significant uplift across retail, catering, venue hire, events, licensing, and sponsorship.

Clare works with clients across the UK cultural landscape, including Serpentine Galleries London and Birmingham Botanical Gardens, supporting organisations to strengthen commercial performance and long‑term resilience. She brings extensive expertise in commercial strategy, financial modelling, stakeholder engagement, catering contract management, tender writing, customer service improvement, mystery shopping, and hands‑on operational delivery.

With a decade of experience in professional Rugby Union, Clare also has deep expertise in sponsorship sales and partnership development, supported by an extensive professional network across the cultural, sporting, and commercial sectors. She specialises in event sales office implementation, proactive sales campaigns, and developing successful models for retail, hospitality, online trading, ticketed events, admissions, and partnerships.

Clare would be delighted to connect and discuss the opportunity to work together.

Father & son team, David & Matthew Rothwell, founded Safepay in 2020, combining their expertise within corporate investigation, hospitality consultancy and events & venue management.

We work exclusively with DOJO offering expert advice on card payments, online payments, remote payments, booking systems and Point of Sale solutions (EPOS or POS). We can provide preferential rates to AVSA membership as well as first class support to all our customers.

M: 07444 561354

matthew.rothwell@dojo.tech

Elavon Merchant Services

Elavon does all things payments. From card readers for solo startups to acquiring for household names, Elavon has a payments solution for every business. Whether you’re taking them in person, online or over the phone, Elavon makes payments simple, safe and secure for you and your customers.

Plus, they integrate with all major gateway providers and can have you up and running in no time.

Elavon handles the payments. You focus on your business.

Get in touch

Speak with Debbie, our GCA expert at Elavon, to discuss solutions that fit your venue, your staff and your customers.

Hamac Trading Company has delivered distinctive, innovative products for over 25 years and now operates across three specialist divisions: Display, Hansa, and Garden.

Hamac Displays creates memorable environments with high-impact commercial display and garden solutions. Our extensive range includes animatronics, lifelike plush animals, lighting sculptures, artificial grass and trees, and seasonal props, designed to elevate displays and events.

As home to Europe’s largest stocked display range, we offer outstanding choice for retail, leisure, hospitality, and experiences.

We are the exclusive distributor of Hansa Creation across the UK, Ireland, and the Middle East. Globally recognised for exceptional realism, Hansa’s plush animals range from small retail products to full-scale animatronic models.

Our Garden division offers one of Europe’s most comprehensive collections, featuring premium water features, resin animal sculptures, and distinctive pots and urns.

Customers can explore and be inspired within our 30,000 sq. ft showrooms, based in Northern Ireland.

Since 1947, we have been leading exemplary architecture, masterplanning, and heritage consultancy to protect, enhance, and evolve the world’s most significant historic buildings and places. Inspired by a deep understanding of context, we craft the identity of the unique places in which we work by cherishing their heritage.

With a spirit that is genuinely innovative and collaborative, we are focused on planet-positive design, championing adaptive reuse of our existing built environment over new construction. We pioneer a conservation-led approach that celebrates our past and responsibly considers the legacy we will leave for future generations. Reimagining heritage in new ways, we work to facilitate positive change for our clients, communities, and wider society by shaping vital, inclusive, and joyful spaces where people can belong.

Ticketure is a modern ticketing and admissions platform that bridges technology and culture to help visitor attractions thrive. We support organisations that need dependable ticket sales, smooth guest journeys, and stronger revenue performance. Our aim is to raise conversion across the visitor lifecycle, from first purchase to return visits, while simplifying back-office work so teams can focus on guests.

For more than fifteen years, museums, heritage sites, zoos, gardens, and cultural venues across the UK and North America have relied on Ticketure to manage complex operations and high visitor volumes. Clients such as National Museums Liverpool, London Transport Museum and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust have reported clear gains, including a ninety percent rise in donations after adopting Ticketure’s donation tools, together with more efficient day-to-day processes.

The platform brings together admissions, timed entry, group bookings, memberships, donations, visitor data, and real-time operational insight. Its modern architecture, open API, and broad integration ecosystem connect CRM, marketing automation, retail, EPOS, and fundraising systems to create a single, coherent view of visitors.

If you’re exploring new ways to elevate admissions, unify your digital ecosystem, or future-proof your ticketing, we’d love to connect.

Louise Jennifer Design is a Scottish based company founded by GSA graduate Louise Jennifer Brown.

Louise creates bold and contemporary design led illustrations featuring our most treasured wildlife.

From garden critters to majestic Highland creatures, each collection encompasses Louises individual style.

Through her use of geometric shape and layering processes, she create texture, detail and form.

This naturally evolving style is now captured in her homeware and gift collections.

Lets celebrate nature

Cobbs Group was established in 2002 in the village of Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness. Geographically, Loch Ness is one of Scotland's largest visitor attractions, and Cobbs is one of the Highlands' largest hospitality businesses, offering hotels, coffee shops, restaurants, retail, visitor attractions, self-catering accommodations, and an award-winning bakery specialising in hand-made cakes, including a large range of gluten-free products and options for other dietary requirements.

Cobbs cakes are supplied to numerous visitor attractions, including the National Trust, the Scottish Parliament, and many major sporting events, such as the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup. These cakes are distributed through food service, along with our Redbox Coffee, who produce a great range of coffees and specialised teas.

A new addition to Cobbs' range of activities is the Loch Ness Illicit Whisky Stilling Experience, based at the Loch Ness Clansman Hotel and dedicated to Donald Fraser, the "King of the Smugglers." This experience includes a half-hour audio-visual show, along with a dram of Whisky.

With our extensive experience in catering at visitor attractions, specifically the Loch Ness Centre and ten years at Urquhart Castle for Historic Scotland, we are in an excellent position to advise and consult with other visitor attractions on their catering and retail requirements.

Cobbs will soon be opening a new tourist information and agency, incorporating retail, on the site of the former Visit Scotland Tourist Information Centre on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. We will welcome all ASVA members and assist in marketing their attractions throughout Scotland.